Sorry for the long silence. Among other things has been a move from St. Louis to Des Moines. The dust has now just about settled from that, and I'm returning to this project. The British and German fleets have been converted. Here is a first pass at a portion of the map, that which would directly pe...

Had a long layoff due to life with a special needs kid, but I have finally gotten started on the Germans. Here's a comparison: Nassau Dreadnought DV 17 AS 14 AF 5 CR 7 CC 3 Dreadnought Dreadnought DV 16 AS 10 AF 2 CR 7 CC 3 Germany's response to the Dreadnought clearly ups the stakes. It wouldn't be...

The VBAM stats were derived from the Federation Commander ship cards available at the time (8+ years ago) and the scenarios were derived from F&E material, so I'm curious how we could possibly have deviated. If we did, since I did both the conversion and the scenario write-ups, it's all on me. 8)

Interesting notion, and if I weren't trying to "Standard VBAM" I might be inclined to pursue it further, but I'm definitely going to be tweaking the light cruisers to make them more effective against destroyers (by allowing use of their primaries against them) as is appropriate.

Oh yeah, I've read both. Where do you think "Steel Castles" came from? :wink: Dreadnought is exactly why Jackie Fisher is my avatar, as well as my interest in this period of naval history. I need to move on to the rest of the fleets, but I haven't had time to resolve the torpedo question y...

Finished converting the rest of British fleet (not counting auxiliaries.) In spite of all the different classes of destroyers built, at this scale they stat out into 3 slight variations of each other that basically equate to pre-war, early war, and late war designs. That will simplify that immensely...